Image by Chris Coltrane There’s not been a great deal of change at Bank. That branch of RBS had its windows smashed (the BBC’s got a photo of someone doing the smashing, surrounded, or egged on, by photographers) and word is, a small group of …
G20 protests started a day early with elevenses at the Bank of England this morning. With the bulk of protests expected tomorrow, security is beginning to ramp up across London. Police have told people living near ExCel to carry two forms of ID, one with …
A report from the Metropolitan Police Authority has revealed that at least 72 officers have suffered broken bones through “horseplay” or “lack of skill” during training. Over the 07-08 period, 19% of reported injuries came through mandatory training exercises, while fractured wrists, ankles and, remarkably, …
It seems that sensitivity training isn’t a key part of policing in Wales, or perhaps a real-life Cluedo game got out of hand. An Amersham widow was stunned to receive, among her late husband’s possessions, the bloodstained rope which he’d used to commit suicide. The …
Image courtesy of Tim Bradshaw under a Creative Commons licence The media’s been in a bit of tizz since the Met’s head of public order, Superintendent David Hartshorn, said in the Guardian yesterday how he expected a “summer of rage” to hit the capital. He …
Image courtesy of KCIvey under a Creative Commons licence. We don’t really like giving you bad news but it’s kind of inevitable that in the recession, there’s going to be more burglaries and opportunistic crimes. We’ve seen an increase in people coming to the door …
Image courtesy of unusualimage from the Londonist Flickr pool Britain already has one-fifth of the world’s CCTV cameras and an average person in the UK is caught on camera hundreds of times a day. And now, if police get their way, we’ll be filmed going …
When did Boris call David Cameron? Image courtesy of Leo Reynolds under a Creative Commons licence Any schoolchild knows you need to revise before an exam, but perhaps they do things differently at Eton? Boris Johnson’s appearance before the home affairs select committee into the …
A weed-growing operation has been foiled in Cheam after police raided a five-bedroom house. What might have tipped off neighbours that something wasn’t right? Could it have been the blackout curtains at all the windows? Digging up the street to wire the house directly into …
Sir Paul Stephenson. Yes, the one that was Acting Commissioner yesterday and Sir Ian Blair’s deputy for the previous 4 years. Not exactly the wind of change then. A quick sniff around the papers puts together this word painting of the man now commanding our …
Image courtesy of parl under a Creative Commons Attribution licence There’s a bit of confusion on the crime statistics front, particularly that perennial favourite, knife crime. National figures for last summer show a jump of 18% in knife crime, but the Met are claiming a …
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